BRAND X: Do they hurt LP 1980 Promotional copy LP. Vinyl is mint and shiny. Genesis drummer Phil Collins. Fusion, Jazz-Rock, Art Rock. Check the audio commentary (what the album is about)

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Audio commentary (what the album is about):

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Side one
“Noddy Goes to Sweden” (Jones) 4:30
“Voidarama” (Goodsall) 4:21
“Act of Will” (Goodsall) 4:43
“Fragile” (Jones, Robinson) 5:26

Side two
“Cambodia” (Goodsall) 4:31
“Triumphant Limp” (Goodsall, Giblin, Lumley, Collins) 7:34
“D.M.Z.” (Jones) 8:39

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Vinyl = mint and shiny.
Charisma CAS 1151 ( original 1980 )
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Personnel:
John Goodsall guitar (except 1 & 4), vocals (3)
Robin Lumley keyboards (2 & 6)
J. Peter Robinson keyboards, tam-tam (5 & 6)
John Giblin bass (2 & 6)
Percy Jones bass (except 2 & 6), vocals (1)
Phil Collins drums (2 & 6)
Mike Clark drums (except 2 & 6)
Morris Pert percussion (1 & 4)

SAMPLES:   www.allmusic.com/album/do-they-hurt-mw0000653876

“Act of Will” is sung through a vocoder. John Goodsall himself said, in a private e-mail, that there were never any written lyrics. Various attempts have been made to puzzle out what he is saying, but the words are likely similar to Masoko Tanga by The Police and are not always words.

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To many, Brand X was either a source of great inspiration or great consternation. Either way, the band was never boring. With DO THEY HURT? Brand X further explores the far reaches of musical experimentation to create their unique fusion. The core members of bassist Percy Jones and guitarist John Goodsall are present, with drummer Mike Clark replacing Phil Collins on most tracks. Also making only a brief appearance, having been mostly replaced by Peter Robinson, is original keyboardist Robin Lumley.
As usual, the music herein is often of a bizarre, if not downright weird, nature, yet not without its own intriguing charm and nuance. Odd time signatures, unexpected turns, and unique sounds pepper the music with a characteristically avant-garde flair. The one exception would be the most radio-friendly cut, “Act of Will”, which, save for its robotic vocal sound, could have fit right into the early ’80s pop charts. The rest of the works are an adventure in exploration, always developing into something new and unexpected.

5.0 out of 5 stars
Recorded as part of the “Product” sessions but released a year later, this is by far a more conventional Brand X release. Even the vocal tracks have that trademark weirdness which so categorise the band. However, once again it is the Percy Jones led band which produce the stand out tracks – being the stop / start spluttering of Fragile and the Jones composition DMZ. Just have a listen to Joness awesome bass solo on this one. Quite astonishing, but only a taste of what he was to do in the ’80s and ’90s.

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Brand X was a jazz fusion band active between 19751980 and 1992-1999. Noted members included Phil Collins (drums), Mike Clark (drums),Percy Jones (bass), John Goodsall (guitar)] and Robin Lumley (keyboards).

Brand X started in 1975 as a “jam” band funded by Island Records, whose A&R rep Danny Wilding wrote down the name “Brand X” to keep track of their activity in the studio calendar and the name stuck. Genesis drummer Phil Collins took over on drums and in early 1976 Unorthodox Behaviour was released to coincide with an extensive UK tour.
Sometime in 1976, both John Goodsall and Phil Collins (along with Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips) assisted Peter Gabriel in the recording of demos towards his debut solo album after leaving Genesis. Goodsall also recorded experimental music with a band that included Bill Bruford, Bayete (Todd Cochran) and Doni Harvey on Bass, from Island label-mates Automatic Man, a San Francisco group led by Santana’s drummer Mike Shrieve.
In 1979, Collins re-joined Brand X for part of the series of recording sessions which would generate enough material for two albums, 1979s Product and 1980s Do They Hurt?. These took place at Startling Studios, located in Ringo Starrs countryside home (formerly owned by John Lennon), with two distinct line-ups operating in alternation (the amazing Mike Clark (mikeclarkmusic.com)provided drums on the other tracks), as Jones later explained. “Our record and management companies were both complaining about poor record sales and telling us we had to make the music more accessible. Some of the guys agreed to go along with this but I felt that to do this would not generate a new audience but would probably just alienate the one that we already had. The only solution was to have two bands, one being more accessible and the other being more experimental or whatever. For my stuff the line-up was Robinson, Clark, Goodsall and me; for the other direction it was Lumley, Collins and Goodsall with John Giblin on bass. We recorded in shifts, ours was 8pm to 4am and the others, 10am to 6pm”. Many fans consider the tracks with Jones and Clark to be the more fascinating and creative material.

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